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Lin Mingxun walked over holding up her gauze skirt, “Why did you say “also”? ” Then she looked at Gu Qianjing with a sly smile on her face and raised her eyebrows as if to say “Come on, let’s tease this stuffy guy together”.
Gu Qianjing didn’t want to pay attention to Lin Mingxun, so she took Xiao Shu’s hand and walked towards the main venue of the banquet.
Obviously, she had said the same thing not long ago, but Lin Mingxun’s teasing made Gu Qianjing feel a little uncomfortable. That kind of mentality was the petty-bourgeois mentality of “I can do whatever I want with my own things, but I will get angry if others say a few words to it.”
Lin Mingxun didn’t get a response from Gu Qianjing, so she shrugged indifferently and followed after her, holding up her big layered skirt.
Just as I reached the grassy path, a foreigner came up jogging, panting. He had brown hair and blue eyes, and his hair was long, tied in a small bun at the back of his head.
After he trotted to catch up with them, he walked behind Lin Mingxun and helped hold up her complicated and redundant skirt.
Xiao Shu lowered his head and wrote on the handwriting board, “Uncle, Li Lei”, and then quietly handed the handwriting board to his mother.
According to Lin Shufeng’s observation, she has forgotten some people since his real mother came back, so he needs to remind his mother in time.
Seeing the name Li Lei, Gu Qianjing almost laughed out loud, Li Lei? I’m still Han Meimei.[1]apparently Li Lei and Han Meimei are fictional characters that appear on China’s Englishtextbooks in the 1990
The Chinese names these foreigners give themselves are really weird.
The main venue of the dinner was in the middle of a lawn, which had been decorated with flowers in advance. A cold table covered with a white lace tablecloth was placed on the edge of the lawn.
There are various drinks and some cold snacks on the table.
The banquet hosts, Mr. and Mrs. Lin Yongchang and Meng Shuxian, had not arrived yet, but quite a few guests had arrived, and they were gathered in groups of three or four to chat.
Gu Qianjing accidentally overheard a few words of their conversation.
”Would you like to go to DaNan to bet on horses next month? Just a few tens of millions for fun, not big money.”
”What’s the point of tens of millions? I bought an island in the Xisha Islands. Let’s make an appointment to go fishing together!”
”What’s the point of fishing? Our company just bought a piece of land in the northern suburbs and plans to develop a hot spring hotel. There is also a wild hot spring there. Let’s make an appointment to go there together.”
”What’s the meaning of wild hot springs? …”
Gu Qianjing and her group walked past them, and Lin Mingqi and Li Lei were immediately stopped by those Versailles men.
”Mingqi, Li Lei, come here quickly. Tell me, which is more fun, the fish or the wild hot spring?”
Lin Mingqi and Li Lei held champagne and chatted with those people. These were cousins in the family, so they still had to be considerate to them.
With the participation of Li Lei, the Versailles chat just now turned into a large-scale international Versailles scene with a mix of Chinese and English languages.
Gu Qianjing stood by and watched. She felt really bored, so she simply took Xiaoshu to find something to eat.
There were some cakes and snacks on the cold table. Gu Qianjing reached out to take a piece of cheesecake on the plate, but another hand with exaggerated bright red rose crystal nails reached out.
Gu Qianjing retracted her hand and politely made a “please” gesture.
Rose Crystal[2]since she doesn’t remember her name, she denoted her with her naild: rose crystal nails glanced at her and forced an exaggerated smile on her face, “Gu Qianjing? Long time no see!”
It seemed that she had met an acquaintance. Gu Qianjing was just about to exchange a few words with Sister Rose.
The boastful Rose took the initiative to remind her, “The last time I saw you was at the old house, when you set fire to the kitchen.”
Gu Qianjing shut up and thought, Sister, you are really good at chatting!
Then the chatty Red Crystal Rose screamed as if she had discovered some new world, “Gu Qianjing? What brand of custom-made clothes are you wearing? Why haven’t I seen them before?”
Gu Qianjing couldn’t keep silent at this point, so she had to force out a fake smile and carefully considered her words, “This was designed exclusively by my personal designer.”
”Oh!” Little Rose’s voice made a sound like a mountain road. “It looks good… It is quite beautiful, but isn’t it inappropriate for you to wear clothes designed by such a small and low-end designer in this kind of occasion?”
”It’s none of your business!” Gu Qianjing thought so in her mind and said it directly.
The other party covered her mouth with her exaggerated rose-shaped finger in surprise, “Gu Qianjing, why are you still swearing?”
Gu Qianjing asked with a smile, “Hey, let me ask you a question. When you say respectable, does it mean that the more expensive the clothes, the more respectable they are?”
The other person put down her hands, her false eyelashes fluttering like two big fans, and answered innocently, “Of course the more expensive it is, the more presentable it is.”
Wild Rose thought that the cheongsam that Gu Qianjing was wearing was made by a small designer, and even if it was purely handmade, it couldn’t be that expensive.
Gu Qianjing smiled sweetly and turned over the buttons on her cheongsam collar to show her, “Here, see, an emerald. One is more than enough to cover your entire outfit today. Just tell me, is it decent enough?”
Little Rose, “…”
Before Crystal Rose was so angry that she wanted to throw champagne on Gu Qianjing, Lin Mingxun rushed to the scene holding up her skirt. She grabbed Gu Qianjing’s wrist and
”I’ve been looking for you for a long time. Come on, I’ll take you to see something good!”
Then Miss Lin glanced at the colorful little roses from the corner of her eye, and her tone immediately became disdainful, “Ding Moli, what are you doing? Are you bullying our Gu Qianjing again?”
Ding Moli seemed a little afraid of Lin Mingxun. When she saw her coming, she walked away mumbling.
Gu Qianjing thought, her name is Jasmine[3]Moli=jasmine, but she likes to dress up like roses, no wonder she looks like a big garden with flowers and willows.
After the people left, Lin Mingxun asked, “Did she cause trouble for you again?”
Gu Qianjing thought, what does it mean again? It seems that Ding Moli often troubled the original owner in the past.
Lin Mingxun was still holding her wrist, leading her as he walked, muttering to herself, “Ever since she cooked something in the old house last time, and I can’t remember what it was, and you insisted on competing with her, and then burned down the kitchen, I feel that Ding Moli is quite cocky.”
Then Lin Mingxun said, “You were so embarrassing back then. You are much cuter now. Keep it up!”
Oh~
Gu Qianjing understood in her heart that the original owner had been defeated miserably by Ding Moli in the previous cooking competition.
Lin Mingxun thought for a moment, “No wonder she looks down on you. She is a daughter of a wealthy family. Marrying into the Lin family is a perfect match. You are a poor little orphan. You don’t have your family to support you. It’s easy for you to suffer.”
Gu Qianjing once again learned the identity of Ding Moli, who should be the wife of one of Lin Mingqi’s cousins.
”But it’s okay.” Lin Mingxun babble and then comforted Gu Qianjing, “Our Mingqi knows how to make money, which is much better than her idiot husband. I don’t know who tricked her husband into buying a deserted island in the Xisha Islands a few days ago. In a place where ghosts can kill people, he still talks about investment. I almost laughed to death.”
For some reason, Gu Qianjing felt a little proud when Lin Mingxun said this.
What’s so great about you being a rich girl?
My husband makes money!
Lin Mingxun led Gu Qianjing further and further away from the crowd, until they walked into a small pavilion with white gauze hanging all around, and then she let go of her hand.
Gu Qianjing looked at Xiaoshu, and Xiaoshu looked at his mother, wondering what Miss Lin was going to do.
Lin Mingxun called a servant over and gave him a few instructions, and then the servant left.
Soon, a servant came over with a dining cart.
The silver cover on the dining cart was lifted and a pot of hot and spicy crayfish was brought out.
Gu Qianjing, “……”
Lin Mingxun wiped her hands with a hot towel, and eagerly picked up a crayfish, calling out to them, “Eat it, Xiaoshu, eat it too! Auntie asked them to put only a little bit of chili in it.”
Lin Mingqi was talking to a few cousins, his eyes unconsciously looking for the pretty figure in the pink cheongsam in the crowd. After seeing Lin Mingxun pulling Gu Qianjing out of the main venue, he chatted with them for a few words and followed them.
”What are you doing?” A cold voice suddenly sounded, startling the people who were peeling lobster shells.
After seeing clearly that it was Lin Mingqi, everyone lowered their heads and continued to dig lobsters.
Even a little bit of chili was spicy enough for Xiao Shu. He opened his red mouth and gasped.
Being ignored, Lin Mingqi turned around and walked back to the cold table, bringing back a jug of juice for the ancestors.
Then, Lin Mingqi inexplicably also sat down and started to dig lobsters together. After digging one, he fed it to Xiao Shu, then dug another one and fed it to Gu Qianjing.
Pick another one, Lin Mingxun stretched his neck over,
Lin Mingqi threw the lobster meat into her mouth.
Lin Mingxun was so angry that she shouted, “I had someone make this crayfish.”
Lin Mingqi asked Gu Qianjing, “Is it spicy?”
Gu Qianjing, “Not bad!”
”Would you like some juice?”
”good!”
Lin Mingxun, “…” I must be under the car!
After eating a whole pot of crayfish, several people tidied themselves up and walked out of the crime pavilion.
Lin Mingqi’s mysophobia flared up and he couldn’t help but sniff his clothes several times, fearing that the smell of spicy crayfish would be on him.
Gu Qianjing, “Tsk…”
Lin Mingqi immediately stopped his overly obvious sniffing action and pretended nothing had happened.
”I’ve been looking for you for a long time, Mingqi, do you want to go riding?” As soon as they returned to the grassland, they were caught by Li Lei, who yelled at them in the strange accent of foreigners speaking Mandarin.
Horse riding? Wow, this manor also has a racecourse, a niche high-end and light luxury setting.
In order to broaden her horizons, Gu Qianjing also came to the racecourse.
Lin Mingxun couldn’t get along with the sisters-in-law in the family, so naturally she came along as well.
The two women sat in the audience drinking coffee, and Lin Mingqi took Xiao Shu to change into riding clothes.
Lin Mingxun sipped the juice and said to Gu Qianjing, “Come with me to the prenatal checkup tomorrow. We will have a B-ultrasound tomorrow and see the baby’s picture.”
She sounded very soft when she said this, not like the arrogant young lady at all. Maybe this is maternal love.
”Where’s your husband?” Gu Qianjing asked, “At times like this, the child’s father should be with him, right?”
”He’s going to fly to Milan tomorrow because our clothing brand is having a fashion show there. You know his parents don’t like him very much, and he wants to make some achievements. When his child is born, he doesn’t want the baby to think that his father is a failure.”
It seems that Li Lei, like herself, also “married down” into the Lin family. Thinking of this, Gu Qianjing felt a bit of sympathy for her brother-in-law Li Lei.
”Yeah.” Gu Qianjing bit the straw, “What time tomorrow? I’ll drive to pick you up.”
”9 o’clock in the morning, hey …”
Lin Mingqi was riding on a pure black horse with Xiao Shu in his arms. The horse with shiny fur was striding towards them.
The riding suit is already full of heroism, and Lin Mingqi’s riding skills are very good. His movements of controlling the horse are clean and handsome. In his arms, there is a little boy with a red face and excitement. The picture is even better.
Cool straight men and cute little boys have always been a perfect match.
Lin Mingxun used his hands as a megaphone and shouted, “So handsome!”
Gu Qianjing gave them a thumbs up and made a “thumbs-up” gesture.
When they returned to the main venue from the racecourse, Lin Yongchang and Meng Shuxian were already there.
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